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By Nelson S. Badilla, Businessmirror, Apr 5, 2018 Citing the order handed down recently by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to Jolibee Food Corp., a labor group advocating the end of job contractualization, or endo, expressed belief that President Duterte, through the DOLE, can do a much better job in regularizing more contractual…

By: Daxim L. Lucas – Reporter / @daxinq Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 05, 2018 The central bank has finally hinted at acting against the accelerating pace of price increases in the country, hours after the government announced that the March inflation rate blew past official estimates to hit a five-year high.

By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 05, 2018 The Philippines may soon lose its eligibility for a trade perk from the European Union (EU) which is aimed at poorer nations, in view of a report that says the country may reach upper middle income status in 2019.

By: Ben O. de Vera, INQ Inquirer Business, Apr 05, 2018 Consumer prices rose 4.3 percent in March or above the government’s 2-4 percent target range for 2018 on the back of a double-digit jump in prices of “sin” products last month.

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by Rey Gamboa (The Philippine Star) – Apr 3, 2018 The face of the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is one that has shown the fastest change in the last couple of years, and this is largely due to the equally fast changing world of information technology and developments in artificial intelligence.

by ABS-CBN News, Apr 02 2018 Walang kapangyarihan ang ehekutibong sangay ng gobyerno para tapusin ang kalakalan ng “endo” o “end of contract,” ayon mismo sa isang opisyal ng Palasyo.

by Rina Chandran, Reuters, Mar 30, 2018 PAMANTINGAN, Philippines (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When the rains failed in 2015 and drought gripped southern Mindanao in the Philippines, Corazon Vegafria knew what she had to do: move to the city of Koronadal, about an hour away by bus, and find work as a domestic helper to…

by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), Mar 29, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — Digital payments provider PayPal plans to grow its business in the Philippines amid positive outlook on the freelance market.

by KARL R. OCAMPO, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Mar 29, 2018 The local mining sector is expecting a tougher business environment this year as the return of Indonesia to the international market is seen to pose stiff competition, said the chief of the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP).

By PEEWEE BACUÑO, BAP, GMA News, Mar 28, 2018 Sugatan ang driver at ang pahinante ng isang truck matapos itong bumangga sa isang water tank at mahulog sa palayan sa Eco-Tourism Road, Barangay Guis-Guis, Sariaya, Quezon Miyerkules ng hapon.

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According to leadership development consultants Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, these are the skills that leaders need to succeed. by Peter Economy, March 28, 2018 Leadership was once called by historian James MacGregor Burns “one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.” Given the results of some recent research, this no longer…

by Malaya, Mar 26, 2018 THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday rejected calls to criminalize employers’ failure to comply with occupational safety and health standards (OSHS).

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by India-West Staff Reporter, Mar 26, 2018 U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, has introduced a bill that attempts to keep call-center jobs in the United States as opposed to moving them offshore to Indian companies or elsewhere.

by Tetch Torres-Tupas, Mar 26, 2018 The Supreme Court’s decision declaring as legal the retrenchment of some 1,400 flight attendants and stewards of the Philippine Airlines (PAL) in 1998 “involves the miraculous resurrection of the dead,” Associate Justice Marvic Leonen said in his dissenting opinion.

by Daxim L. Lucas, Inquirer, Mar 26, 2018 Confidence among Filipino consumers — traditionally some of the most profligate in the region — nearly evaporated in the first quarter of the year, with most citing rising prices of goods and services as the main reason for the decline in their optimism.

(The Philippine Star) – Mar 25, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) yesterday called on all partners to take “unprecedented and bold action” to advance efforts to end tuberculosis (TB) and AIDS by 2023.

by Atty. Alex B. Cabrera (The Philippine Star), Mar 25, 2018 We were blindsided, in a way, because we did not know how the US will do it. The US, which accounts for as much as 70 percent of BPO (including call centers) revenue in the country, is whipping up laws and policies, encouraging behavior,…

by Daxim L. Lucas, Inquirer, Mar 23, 2018 Despite all the talk of increasing prices of goods and services — and the actual headline inflation rates having risen these above expectations these last two months — the central bank yesterday said it expects the situation to normalize by next year.

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BY WILLIAM DEPASUPIL, TMT, Manila Times, Mar 22, 2018 THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has taken the lead in ensuring protection for over two million domestic helpers in the country through the Kasambahay Law.

by Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), Mar 21, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) warned jobseekers yesterday against fake job offers in London.

by Helen Flores (The Philippine Star), Mar 21, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — Manila has dropped two notches in the list of cities in the world with the best quality of life, according to the latest survey conducted by consulting firm Mercer.

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